What is surrealism?: Selected writings

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Pagina 51Selected writings André Breton Franklin Rosemont. illegality, for example) have
provided a certain latitude in regard to their internal structure as well as their
interrelationship with other groups. As the Portuguese comrades declared in
1950: 'In ...

Pagina 31This debility exists : it keeps us from presenting ourselves each time the occasion
arises, even in relation to ideas which we are certain we do not share with others
and which we know quite well outlaw us with regard to action. Without desiring ...

Pagina 41Even if we were suspected of passivity with regard to the various piratical
undertakings of capitalism, this might be understandable, but this is not the case.
We would not, for anything in the world, defend an inch of French territory, but in
Russia ...

Over de auteur (1978)

Andre Breton, poet, novelist, philosophical essayist, and art critic, is considered the father of surrealism. From World War I to the 1940s, Breton was at the forefront of the numerous avant-garde activities that centered in Paris. A prolific producer of pamphlets and manifestoes, he also edited two surrealist periodicals. Breton's influence on the art and literature of the twentieth century has been enormous. Picasso, Derain, Magritte, Giacometti, Cocteau, Eluard, and Gracq are among the many whose work was affected by his thinking. From 1927 to 1933, Breton was a member of the Communist party, but thereafter he opposed communism. At the time of Breton's death in 1966, his novel Nadja (1928), about a young dreamer in love with an ethereal heroine was reaching a new generation of theatre goers.